Luo Ying, born in 1956 in Ningxia Province, had his first works published at age 13. By now he has published 11 collections of poetry and fiction. His poetry has been translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Mongolian, Spanish and Icelandic.

Beside founding Zhongkun Poetry Development Fund, Sino-Japanese Poetry Fund and Sino-Icelandic Poetry Fund, Luo Ying has initiated many poetry festivals and gatherings: these include the Asia-Europe Poetry Festival, Sino-American Poetry Gathering, Sino-British Poetry Gathering, Sino-Japanese Poetry Gathering, Pamirs International Poetry Festival，Chinese-North European Poetry Gathering, Sino-French Poetry Gathering and Sino-German Poetry Gathering. He has also organized exchanges among Chinese and South American poets, set up the Zhongkun International Poetry Prize, sponsored China Poetry Institute at Peking University and established the “Poet in Residence Program” at Peking University.

Luo Ying’s own writing takes a critical stance toward modern phenomena and confronts the reality of contemporary Chinese society. “Luo Ying’s works are blood-clot critiques of China’s distorted society.” (Mariana Geiger, German writer) His style of writing constitutes a unique poetic critique of modernity.

Luo Ying’s official website (www.luoying.me) has been visited over 200,000 times, and site visits have increased to almost 2000 per day.

Luo Ying is also a mountaineer and a key member of the Explorer Club in New York. He has climbed the highest mountain on each of the world’s continents and trekked to the North Pole and South Pole, climbing Qomolungma three times. He poetically documented all phases of his mountaineering experiences—the solitude, suffering and brushes with death—to produce a body of work titled 7+2 Mountain Climbing Journal.

He is currently engaged in “21st Century Faces of Humanity Action,” a ten-year plan to travel the globe and visit all worldwide cultural heritage sites. In each country he will investigate life-conditions of human beings caught in the modern predicament, while holding a dialogue with history.

Luo Ying strives to protect the environment and its creatures through his work with a worldwide environmental organization: He is a board member of WildAid International and Chairman of WildAid China. .

Luo Ying is the pen name of Huang Nubo; he is the founder of a private corporation in China.

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Lello Voce is an Italian poet, writer and journalist who was born in Naples in 1957. He is poet, writer and performer. He was among the founders of Gruppo 93 and of the six-monthly literary magazine Baldus.

He has published the novels Eroina, Cucarachas and Il Cristo elettrico; and also the poetry books. Farfalle da combattimento, L’esercizio della lingua, Piccola cucina Cannibale.

In 2003 he was awarded the Delfini Poetry Award for L’esercizio della lingua (with original drawings by Sandro Chia, Mazzoli editore).

He was the first to introduce Poetry Slams in Italy and he was the first EmCee to organize and lead an international Poetry Slam with poets of no less than seven different languages (Romapoesia, 2002, Big Torino 2002).

In 2000, with Nanni Balestrini, Paolo Fabbri, and Sergio Spina he co-authored the TV programme The Navel of the World (Rai Educational -Rai 3 - Rai1) which was broadcast from October of that year. In 2003 he wrote the script for Places/NonPlaces (Sky TV / TV Cult) with Adriana Polveroni.

He has organized a wide range of culture and poetry festivals and meetings. He was the artistic coordinator of the International "Venezia Poesia"Festival, directed by Nanni Balestrini in 1996. Always in 1996 he cooperated with the Italian Culture Institute of Sao Paulo, Brazil in organizing the Italian space at the 14th Book Biennial, the most important book fair in South America. He worked for UNESCO as Project Leader and Artistic Director of the International Rap and Hip Hop culture Festival"VERONA RAP" (1998).

He was Artistic Director of the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 editions of the International Festival « Romapoesia » in Rome and of the first Italian Poetry Festival in Japan (Tokyo, 2001 - always jointly with Nanni Balestrini and Luigi Cinque).

Since 2005 he’s been Artistic Director of the International Poetry Festival of Monfalcone (GO) - Absolute Poetry, and he has designed its collective poetry blog and international poetry aggregator Poegator.